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Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat on family, migration and the beauty of her home country, Haiti

Bookends with Mattea Roach
Bookends with Mattea Roach
Episode • Jul 16, 2023 • 51m
Celebrated Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat speaks to Eleanor Wachtel about her moving memoir, Brother, I’m Dying. It tells the story of Danticat's family amid turbulent times, focusing on her father and his brother, the uncle who raised her in Haiti and later died in custody as he sought refuge in Miami. *This episode originally aired October 21, 2007.

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